Nadia A KhanDepartment of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CanadaJAMA 295:536-46. 2006

..Physicians typically depend on the clinical examination to identify patients who need further diagnostic testing...

Association of postoperative complications with hospital costs and length of stay in a tertiary care center

Nadia A KhanDepartment of Medicine, University of British Columbia, BC, CanadaJ Gen Intern Med 21:177-80. 2006

..Postoperative complications are a significant source of morbidity and mortality. There are limited studies, however, assessing the impact of common postoperative complications on health care resource utilization...

Ethnicity and sex affect diabetes incidence and outcomes

Nadia A KhanDivision of General Internal Medicine, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, CanadaDiabetes Care 34:96-101. 2011

..We determined incidence of diabetes and risk of death or macrovascular complications by sex among major Asian subgroups, South Asian and Chinese, and white patients with newly diagnosed diabetes...

Outcomes after acute myocardial infarction in South Asian, Chinese, and white patients

Nadia A KhanDepartment of Medicine, Center for Health Evaluation and Outcomes Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CanadaCirculation 122:1570-7. 2010

..To clarify this association, we compared mortality, use of revascularization procedures, and risk of recurrent AMI and hospitalization for heart failure between these ethnic groups in a universal-access healthcare system...

Antihypertensive drug use and adherence after stroke: are there sex differences?

Nadia A KhanDivision of General Internal Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CanadaStroke 41:1445-9. 2010

..The majority of stroke fatalities occur in elderly women. We compared prescribing and adherence to antihypertensive therapies shown to reduce fatal and nonfatal stroke recurrence among elderly women and men with acute stroke...

Kidney function and mortality among patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction

..The primary aim of this study was to determine the proportion of those untreated individuals who would be recommended to start drug therapy for control of blood pressure among those aware or unaware of their diagnosis of hypertension...

Development of a perioperative medicine research agenda: a cross sectional survey

..To provide updated, evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis and assessment of adults with hypertension...

Renal denervation therapy for the treatment of resistant hypertension: a position statement by the Canadian Hypertension Education Program

Nadia A KhanDivision of General Internal Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Electronic addressCan J Cardiol 30:16-21. 2014

..Until more data are available, renal sympathetic denervation should be considered as a treatment option of last resort for patients with resistant hypertension who have exhausted all other available medical management options...

Outcomes in a diabetic population of South Asians and whites following hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction: a retrospective cohort study

..Little is known regarding potential differences in antihypertensive prescribing practices at a Canadian provincial level. Our objective was to determine provincial differences in the use of antihypertensive drug therapy in Canada...

..Racial differences in health outcomes in general are well documented; however, few studies examined the impact of East Asian and Indo Asian race on choice of dialytic modality and survival among patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD)...

Atenolol vs nonatenolol β-blockers for the treatment of hypertension: a meta-analysis

Laura M KuyperDivision of General Internal Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaCan J Cardiol 30:S47-53. 2014

..Methods of reporting of race/ethnicity in biomedical journals are largely unknown. We aimed to systematically examine the reporting practice of race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) information in biomedical journals...

Antidepressant medication use among First Nations peoples residing within British Columbia

..3 years and the female:male ratio was approximately 3:1. The most common medications were Paxil, Apo-Amitriptyline, Effexor, and Celexa. Use of this medication class is common and more research is needed in this area of study...

Trends in antihypertensive drug prescriptions and physician visits in Canada between 1996 and 2006